Another very interesting article Jeremy. Amazing how quickly people can forget.

I'm amazed when people think I exaggerate about the size of fish my father used to catch. They simply don't get the chance to grow that big any more, and that's with scientific management and regulations.

What hope do wild animals have when it's 'every man for themselves'?

James Webley at TalkingNature.com

amazing article!

I suspect the "shifting baseline syndrome" applies to other realms of culture: freedom, spare time, communion with family and friends.

Perhaps Ray Kurzweil and the technophiles are right - in the absence of nature, freedom, and human connection we will become increasingly absorbed into the internet and an emergent machine consciousness... somewhat funny though - to have all the human lusts, sources of contentment, and avarice confined into a sentient form which could never come close to experiencing the very things it wiped out in the wake of its own genesis... like a 21st century version of Sartre's "No Exit" - hell is no longer other people- hell becomes the frustrated collective consciousness's awareness of its infinite inability to be here and now; to embrace the elements of experience that are most consistent with human evolution: biophilia, social communion, love, sexuality, exploration... is this not almost exactly what is happening right now?

we sit on computers mashing away at the keys, cataloging the ongoing extinction of all of life around us pretending that some solution will emerge from within the system... maybe the next Obama will stop all those wars... maybe the next climate meetings will go somewhere... maybe the next techno doo hicky will fix the environment... and we allow one another to forget the travesties being wrought on our world in the wake of what has been issued to us by our gracious overseers as "progress."

i wonder how long this will continue... 2050 - "hey, do you guys remember frogs?"